Nagpur/Goa: RSS higher ups in Nagpur have taken the act of openly taking on BJP by its Goa Chief Subhash Velingkar rather seriously.
Advertisement
Around 200 demonstrators of Velingkar-led Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch (BBSM) had waved black flags and shouted anti-BJP slogans during Shah’s day-long visit to the poll-bound state on August 21.
Velingkar in the recent past had said that the state BJP governments under Manohar Parrikar and Parsekar had cheated the people on the issue of medium of instruction.
On August 20, Shah was shown black flags by members of a regional languages front headed by Velingkar when the BJP president was on a day-long visit to the poll-bound state.
A large number of RSS workers from the state last night held an “emergency” meeting for over three hours at Bambolim near here in the backdrop of Velingkar’s removal.
He had even showed black flag to the party chief Amit Shah recently. “All office bearers from the district units, sub district units and shakhas ing with hundreds of others have decided quit from the RSS, until Velingkar Sir is reinstated”.
Following unceremonious sacking of RSS chief Subhash Velingkar, more that 400 RSS volunteers announced their resignation from the Hindu organisation on Wednesday. BJP can not dictate terms to the RSS, said an RSS leader.
Vaidya said the decision on new organisational head for the coastal state, where elections are due next year, is yet to be taken.
RSS’s chief spokesperson Manmohan Vaidya said: “One can not hold a post in the Sangh and take part in political activities”.
Reacting to the development, Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar said it is an internal matter of the Sangh and we (BJP) have nothing to it.
They said the BBSM and RSS are two different entities and decision to float a party was of BBSM and Velingkar was not part of it. Valignkar has been running a campaign against the BJP in the state after BJP government continued grant in aid to 127 church run English medium schools.
Advertisement
Vaidya said Velingkar can continue being a “swayamsevak” (volunteer).
